Google is rolling out its age assurance technology that uses AI in Canada.
Essentially, the technology uses machine learning to interpret “a variety of signals already associated with the users account, such as the types of information a user has searched for or the categories of videos they’ve watched on YouTube,” in order to determine a user’s age.
Those videos people did “for fun” also had massive exposure, because there was money coming in to pay for the servers to push those videos out.
Peertube offers neither much exposure, nor any money, so why? Why spend time making videos for a very few people who you will never meet?
I don’t like capitalism or monetization, but what you want is a logical impossibility without a funding stream, and I doubt there is one that isn’t problematic to some degree.
Places where independence can thrive are webpages and podcasts–both much cheaper to produce and distribute.
As I said, just for fun. Not everyone creates art for money or reputation. Obviously you do need someone to pay the bills though, hence everything Google has done with youtube over the years.
I get the impulse to create for fun, I really do. But once having created that art for fun, I can also see the impulse to want money from it, if possible, or to increase your social status. So as long as platforms offering reimbursement exist, they will have better and more content than free platforms.
And I’m also listening to what the YouTubers I personally follow say. One of my favorite youtubers is only youtube because TikTok stopped paying creators (and because algorithmically every video was a total crapshoot regardless of followers). A lot of creators I follow also make a big deal of Nebula, because that’s more a cooperative arrangement where they get a larger share of the profits…